Thank You Card

This is a Thank You card I made back in June, but did not get a chance to upload it to my blog.  I love the cuttle-bugged butterfly.  The ribbon is from Walmart and the border is from Stampin'Up.  The background paper is embossed with flowers from Bazzill Cardstock and the cardstock base is Swiss Dot, also from Bazzill.

Copic - House Mouse -Birthday Wishes

This is a Birthday Card I made last week using my Copic Markers. I am loving these markers!! I just don't have nearly enough time to use them!! I love, love, love the House Mouse stamps...they are sooooo cute!!! Hope you like them too!!!

Beautiful Ladies

These are a few of the Ladies who are part of a larger group of Ladies who have been making cards to send to our troops serving in Afghanistan over the past five years. They are (top row) Debra LeBlanc (her son-in-law Jeff was the first military personnel who received our cards), Ruthie Allen-Hamilton, Becky Bullerwell, Sandra MacDonald (her son Caleb has just returned from Afghanistan and her nephew Corey is serving in Afghanistan now), (front row - right to left) Debbie Goodwin, Daisy, myself and Anna Fevens is with us via telephone from Newfoundland. We had gathered for a time of fellowship and to put together a shipment of cards. We have just sent 7 boxes of Christmas Cards to seven soldiers who are connected to our church family this week. In total we have made and shipped over 7,000 cards to minister to our solders and their families. We send a card to each soldier and then a box of cards with envelopes for the soldiers to send greetings back to their family/friends at home. This is not an original idea, but one I found when looking through a card-making magazine several years ago. A lady had started this project in the US for their soldiers and as we had soldiers serving whom we were all connected to, and we love to make cards, we thought we would take on this ministry. Each box of cards is prayed over for the soldier receiving the box and also for the family member or friend who will receive a card. I believe we receive the biggest blessing!! Please keep our soldiers and their families in your prayers. May God bless them and keep them. Amen!!

Copic - Heartfelt Sympathy

This is a Sympathy Card I made recently using my Copic Markers. This stamp is from Our Daily Bread - Sing To The Lord. I love the bird, flowers and sentiments in this set. The Sentiment is from Stampin Up.

Copic Markers

Hello to you all in Blog Land. Sorry I have not uploaded any projects for quite awhile. I must admit I have been bitten by the Copic Bug and have acquired a MAJOR addiction!!! I have always loved to colour, but definitely have not considered myself an artist by any stretch of the imagination. My cousin, Jane, has taught me to colour with Copics in July and since then, I have coloured every stamp I can get my hands on. This is a card I made for Sandras' birthday celebration last week. I love sunflowers and to be able to colour them with the Copic markers is pure joy. I am still learning and looking forward to taking some classes over the next few months, but this is a passion I will enjoy for a long time. Can't wait to start my Christmas Cards, colouring the beautiful colours of the season with my Copics. Anyway, hope you like this card. I will try to upload some other images I have coloured lately that have not made it onto cards yet. Thanks for stopping by!! See you soon!!

MOJO Monday Week 130

This is a Thank You card I made using my new Sweet Pea DSP from Stampin' Up. I love all the patterns in this paper and it definitely looks Springy to me...I think Springy is a word....anyway, I love this paper!!! This is also my card for the MOJO Monday Week 130 Sketch Challenge. I do like this layout...took me some time to finish it, but I like how it turned out. I used Green Bazzil leaf embossed paper for the card base and Yellow Bazzil cardstock to mat the layout. I scored the mat under the quote with my scorepal making a diamond pattern. The quote is from Inkadinkado (Dawn Houser), the ribbon is from Stampin' Up and the brads are random silver brads. I used Spellbinders Round, scallop-edge Nestabilities Dye and Stampin-Up Scallop-edged punch as well.

This is a card I cased from Amy Sheffer of Stamper's Dream (http://www.stampersdream.com/). I love the layout of this card and thought it would work well for the Sympathy Card I made for my dear friend whose brother has gone to be with the Lord. I used black Bazzill Cardstock as the base, white embossed bazzil for the background paper, baby blue and green cardstock for trim, DSP from SU (retired), black ribbon from Walmart, miscellaneous button from my stash, Sentiment from Refuge and Strength (SU) and the daffodils are from Beautiful Life (SU). I coloured the daffies with a So Saffron marker from SU. I cut the DSP squares with Nesties and matted them with white Bazzill cardstock then added green brads for embellishment.

This is a card I made for Howard Nickerson who recently retired as the Custodian of our Church. He loves Gospel and Country music so used last years Autumn Paper from SU as my background paper. This is also my sketch for Mojo Monday 127 (Square) from last week. I used the Square Nestabilities for the Sentiment and Mat. The Sentiment is from Inkadinkado. I added glitter brads and the ribbon is from Walmart with a miscellaneous buckle. For Ink I used SU Chocolate Chip.

This is a card I made for a friend who has some health problems. I made this card using the Mojo Monday 126 Sketch Challenge. I really like this layout. This DSP is from an older Basic Grey collection which is double sided. I used punches from SU to mat the button. The ribbon is miscellaneous and the stamp as well.